Re: [pfSense] Primer for AP/bridge setup? (based on Re: Access Point Recommendations?)
Kenward Vaughan wrote on Fri, Jul 24 2015 at 10:00 am: We have a laser printer down the hall to which I attached an old home wifi router (don't recall the brand) making it accessible to people. Thought it would be nice to have this also bridge to the LAN Usually devices can be access points, wireless clients, or bridges, but not more than one. I would expect if you connect the printer to the LAN, then anyone using the printer would need to connect to the LAN's AP instead of directly to the printer. -- Steve Yates ITS, Inc. ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
[pfSense] Primer for AP/bridge setup? (based on Re: Access Point Recommendations?)
Hello, At my school I own a small LAN with a VPN to the outside world, and use pfSense to control that part of things with a regular HP 2530 switch internally. I'd like to be able to have students/professors access the LAN outside of the boxes themselves, so getting an AP seems like an obvious solution; based on the other thread the Ubiquiti UniFi AP seems like a good choice to attach to the switch. We have a laser printer down the hall to which I attached an old home wifi router (don't recall the brand) making it accessible to people. Thought it would be nice to have this also bridge to the LAN, so profs could access that and the LAN's own printer through one connection. The LAN/pfSense would manage this so the wifi router should become a bridging device, yes? Can someone point me to something online which would explain how the above HW setup might be done, if it's even possible with the connectivity described? I've looked at several places which describe various permutations, but am uncertain if they apply here. Questions which I believe involve pfSense: Can the (Ubiquiti) AP both handle requests from outside laptops, and serve as the link to the other printer? Is it possible to set things up in pfSense in a way that all incoming LAN requests are shunted to an Apache server on one of the LAN machines, while printer requests go to the printers instead? Would this involve the AP and printers being on a DMZ? Thanks for any help! Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
Re: [pfSense] Primer for AP/bridge setup? (based on Re: Access Point Recommendations?)
Kenward Vaughan wrote on Fri, Jul 24 2015 at 11:00 am: I currently use the older router wired to the laserjet because I expected it to have more range, and honestly haven't tried setting up a printer's wifi connection before. So it is a standalone system right now. Would that printer work directly with the LANs AP as a bridge, getting its IP address, etc, from there? I don't want unlimited access to it. If the printer has wireless you can connect the printer to any access point. That is the same as plugging in a cable so that wouldn't limit access. However bridging it to the network doesn't limit access either unless the bridge has some sort of security set up. I was just skimming this thread but I think to use pfSense you'd have to have the printer on a different subnet or in some way have pfSense do the routing so it could have firewall rules set up. -- Steve Yates ITS, Inc. ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
